Thursday, August 11, 2011

Jungle Boogie!

Hey y'all!! I started back on Wednesday and have loved every single precious minute with my new first graders!! Seriously, they are the sweetest bunch!!

I had planned to post pics of my room last weekend, but instead spent every bit of my free time making labels and working in my classroom! It was a lot of work...AND a lot of fun!!

Here are a few pictures of my new jungle themed room. Let me warn you though...It isn't as elaborate as many jungle themed rooms out there. My district encourages us to only have educational decorations. Let's just say my room is a very simplified version of a jungle themed classroom...

Here's a close up of what was on my students' desks before "Meet the Teacher". I used Cara Carroll's student info sheet (LOVED IT) and was inspired by her to create a jungle themed to-do list for my parents! You can check out Cara's back to school post with a bunch of awesome freebies HERE!

As you can see in the picture above, I gave each of my sweeties a cute animal print stationary set from Oriental Trading as a lil' welcome gift.They were a BIG hit!!

After our wonderful first day in first grade, I also treated my students to these ADORABLE jungle suckers (also from Oriental Trading)!!! They were an even BIGGER hit!!

Click {HERE} to download the "Welcome to 1st Grade" & "Thank you for being so SWEET today" cards!

Well, I better get into bed & rest up for the first Friday of the school year!! Hope y'all have a great weekend!!

16 comments:

What a fabulous post!! I loved reading about your classroom setup and first couple days of school. Your classroom looks great and I think it's great that your district has decor expectations. The first school that I taught at enforced the same expectation. We had to have a wall for each subject…because, walls that talk…teach. Hope you have a wonderful Friday and weekend! Don't work too hard.

Your classroom is adorable and ideas oh-so-cute. I'm also using a jungle theme for my classroom in second grade. Is there any way you could make these available in editable (word) format so that I could change wording to second? Are these available on TPT? Thank you so much!

Wow! I stumbled upon your blog (I should be cleaning/doing laundry) and I am so GLAD I did. Your room is perfect. You have a theme but the theme doesn't SCREAM out at you. I like a classroom where the students "pop", not the decorations. I'll bet your group looks adorable here!!~KittyThe Write Handed Teacher

I decided to do a jungle theme this year as well after checking out so many fabulous blogs. I have pictures posted on my new blog as well! BTW...I love the zebra print everywhere! And where did you get the animal print file folders at your reading response station??